Thanks, Chuck and Joel. I highly recommend the place (And I'm told that
the Edison museum that Ford set up in Michigan is even better). I felt
like a kid in a candy store. All that late 19th-century stuff that so
transformed the world.
--Peter
> Thanks for the tour. I enjoyed it. We were there about 20 years ago
and had planned to go again with friends last month but one of the
friends took ill and the trip never came off. Maybe next year.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 4/4/2014 1:11 AM, Peter Klein wrote:
> One of the highlights of my recent vacation was a visit to Thomas
> Edison's winter home and museum in Ft. Meyers, FL. Most of what I took
> there was "record shots"--pun intended, as there were a lot of old
> phonographs in evidence :-) No artistic pretention and minimum
> post-processing, but some fun stuff. If you'd like to see them, they are
> here:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/EdisonFtMeyers/>
>
> In addition to phonographs, there's shots of the house, the grounds, and
> in the museum, all sorts of fun old stuff like an X-ray machine and
> tubes, DC generators from the late 19th century, motion picture
> equipment, and the lab where he and his associates attempted to find a
> domestic plant source of latex from which to make rubber.
>
> --Peter
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